Ditto. AOP was pretty big in Enterprise Java shops in ~2007 era and I'm also glad that it never took off. It was one of those fads driven by "Architecture astr

Ditto. AOP was pretty big in Enterprise Java shops in ~2007 era and I'm also glad that it never took off. It was one of those fads driven by "Architecture astronauts" and it resulted into lots of bloated code and delayed/failed projects. I vaguely remember one major project from Visa that used AOP heavily and was an unmaintainable hot potato. It was passed on to different consulting companies and everyone messed it further by adding their idea of AOP to it.